I am afraid I must agree with OM. Open campfires are becoming a thing of the past...
Well, I'm going to have to disagree with both you and OM, campfires are not a thing of the past.
Here in the Ozarks "campfires" are still as much a tradition as camping itself, and a dearly held one at that. By the time our kids are in middle school they're going to "Creek Parties" and building, what has been traditionally called "campfires" with their friends. During the Deer hunting season hunters will gather and spend nights out together at their hunting camps and they also have what has been traditionally called "campfires". So campfires are still very much a part of the present here, but there's more to it than just that...
The truth is, here in the Ozarks, we know these "campfires" offer real ecological benefits, but we also know that times have changed, and we know we have to change with them, so now we call building and tending campfires a "PCSS" (Public Carbon Sequestration Service).
If fact, this year our local backpacking club is applying for a government grant that pays us to tend to our "CSZ" (Carbon Sequestration Zone). These payments will be funded by the sales of
"Carbon Credits" .
I expect to be able to buy all new, high-end, backpacking gear by the end of next season. So, in a very real sense, "campfires" are very much a "thing of the future".
[Disclaimer: some of this may not be entirely true, but it may be someday ]